With the pandemic sweeping the world, have you sat down and thought about what if I get COVID? What if my husband gets COVID? What about the kids? Or have you thought I have taken all precautions and I won't get the deadly infection?
Well! This mom of 2 little ones also thought the same. Shradha Mehra Virani aka @thediaperdrama was home, staying indoors, keeping her kids safe, dosing everyone ith kadha and sanitizing everything around. Her husband had gone back to work but they were taking al the necessary precautions. That's when trouble struck. First, her husband and then Shradha tested positive for COVID-19. Thankfully the kids were safe.
Shradha wanted to share her journey – alone in her room, with her husband isolated in the other room and unable to see her 3-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter for 27 long days. She has spoken very candidly about how she felt, the meltdowns she had through it all, the 'why me' times and how she kept it together for her kids virtually. She walks us through symptoms & what it felt like when it first started, the medical kit must have & her biggest learning and did her perspective to life change after this traumatic experience with COVID.
We talked about
1. Symptoms: What did it feel like when it first started?
2. Medical Kit Must have's
3. Were you in denial? Why me, no I don't want to get tested?
4. The first time you feel even mild symptoms – what should one do and given that in your case it was both you and your husband together – how should a family prepare. Right from finances, to meds, to things at home?
5. How did you manage the kids? How do you tell them, what's the conversation especially when they are so little?
6. How do you physically manage to keep distance within the house?
7. How do you stay mentally strong? What's the conversation you have with yourself?
8. Did you question why me?
9. Before every test that came positive/negative – what's the thought process?
10. After each what's the thought process?
11. Diet during those few days?
12. How doe sit feel now that it is behind you?
13. Your biggest learning and has your perspective to life changed
14. Sanitizing your house post-Covid.
If you are curious and want to know more, watch Mansi Zaveri in conversation with Shradha Virani.
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